MP

Profile

Logan City electorate including the suburbs of Underwood, Woodridge, Logan Central, Marsden and parts of Slacks Creek, Kingston and Crestmead.

Redistribution

Gains Underwood from Stretton and parts of Crestmead from Logan. The Labor margin slips from 29.0% to a still imposing margin of 27.2%.

History/Trivia

Woodridge is a very solid working class electorate in which One Nation doubled the Liberal Party vote in both 1998 and 2001. Woodridge had been held by Labor's Bill D'Arcy from 1977 until resigning in 1999 to fight sex charges stemming from his days as a school teacher. D'Arcy was convicted and gaoled on the charges in November 2000. D'Arcy's final term in Parliament was also controversial for his involvement in a bid for an internet gambling licence, which resulted in Treasurer David Hamill temporarily standing aside. At the by-election following D'Arcy's resignation, Labor's former state secretary Mike Kaiser was easily elected after a contest with a local Independent, but his career in state Parliament was only brief, forced to resign as a Labor MP after adverse findings in the Shepherdson Inquiry. Labor's new candidate Desley Scott won easily in 2001, a result repeated in both 2004 and 2006.